Re-releasing this after others reviewed it:
I calculated a map of changes from Census 2010 to 2020 in California by population, race & housing. Colors are coded by percent increase. Select a subject then hover the mouse to see demographics.
Disclaimers⬇️ darrellowensrcd.github.io/infoTransit/ce…
- Colors were originally percentage increase/decrease, now they are total number increased/decrease for more visual accuracy
- All races besides Latinos are non-Hispanic
- Housing Units include Occupied and Vacant. Vacant count is included.
Black tracts are tracts that changed names and I could not find patterns with. Most changed tracts were identified by my algo and were calculated into the 2010 tract baseline map. So 101.01 and 101.02 in 2020 is put under 101 (2010).
Yes, if you want to see the total increase in population in a tract/ all races, toggle the selection drop down to "Total Population (2020)"
RCD means @RCDHousing. I made my github when I was working in affordable housing construction for a project to analyze the affordable housing waitlists and later it just became my personal account thx.
How To Use:
- Toggle a race or total pop. to see its count in 2010 and 2020 and the net difference.
- Go to housing units to see the number of homes. Check differences to see how much home construction or demolition
- Check Vacancy to see increase and decrease in vacant homes
Example:
- Toggle to Asian
- the 2010 and 2020 counts are at the top right and the net difference. There are 612 fewer Asians in this tract my mouse is hovering over in 2020 than 2010
Example 2:
- Toggle to Housing Units
- There are 5,403 more homes in this tract in 2020 than there were in 2010
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In my reading and convos with abolitionist scholars at UCSC, the immediate proposals to reduce material causes of crime is good. But the lofty, more visionary ideology of no incarceration falls into the same theory issues of Anarchism where states are undesirably re-defined.
i think its like an twitter/online thing because in abolitionist adjacent courses (led by Angela Davis) they didnt focus much on stateless, no jail ever utopias twitter talks a lot about but instead how crime is often materially motivated, directly and indirectly, and prevention
Once harm is done, what distinguishes prison abolitionists from reformists is the idea that incarceration by the state will never rectify the issue. I'm far more a statist than an anarchist and don't agree. But they say the more important convo is prevention before reaction.
The co-housing experiments in Berkeley, Fremont and Sacramento where residents pools money to build new homes and removes the for profit developer -- collectivist development -- all cant afford to provide low cost affordable housing at current construction costs.
People who'd just mandate higher affordability should reflect on why communal development where housing is priced at cost are closing in on $1 mil. And that things deemed deregulatory like upzoning, streanlining, removing reqs etc would be done in a socialist system as well.
Its beyond supply and demand pricing; low price ceiling absent a subsidy wouldnt even work.
The workers are making their own housing, and they are achieving several $100,000s cheaper than market prices, but still Berkeley and Fremont are ranging $800k - $1 mil, Sac $400k - $600k
I despise protected right turn lanes they are trash and should be banned. Every time i gotta play chicken with speeding drivers trying to make quick rights without stopping *just* so that i can press the beg button on a tiny lil concrete island flanked on all sides by traffic.
The one by Milpitas BART is more egregious than anything because BART or VTA has that stupid fence hiding vacant land so the drivers come flying in blind.
This is newly built infrastructure and traffic engineering seems to be pushing for drivers to never have to stop when taking a right turn on a street. Its not a freeway, all 90 degree turns should require a stop beforehand.
The teens were riding the bikes and docked them / ended their ride to basically avoid a charge when you take the rent-a-bikes out for too long. Its why I dont use those bikes cause they're strict.
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The teens sit on the docked bikes. The bikes no longer belong to them but they see fit to sit on them because they're about to undock them again in a few mins and if dont sit on them, someone will undock and *they wont have one. This is a nothing burger.
(* key dispute here)
So pregnant lady comes up and sees the kids squatting on the e-bikes. She asks for one, none give theirs up. She uses the "im pregnant so give up your seat up" logic w/ e-bikes but the boys don't budge. I've seen this a million times on transit. Again a nothing burger.
I cant believe "scare the Soviets" is real. Yeah they worked on the Manhattan project for years to scare Stalin's dumbass & no president or general ever wrote it in their diary. Hiroshima was evil but no American cared about scaring the Soviets who Truman wanted to enter the war.
The atomic bombs were dropped because it was the most expensive weapon in history of government and they intended to use it against a nation the homefront fanatically hated. Not to scare Stalin. Not to avoid a land invasion or anything else.
And thats supported by Leslie Groves who led the atomic bombings and had a bloodlust thing going on. When Truman's dumbass realized the bombs were used primarily against civilian targets he ordered the atomic enrichment to stop but lied publicly and acted like it was his idea.
I think the reason why BART gets higher negativity points than Muni is because bus systems with a transit operator nearby feel a lot safer than 10 cars with 9 of them isolated away. This is why its frustrating 75% of riders have never seen an unarmed transit ambassador before.
BART Rider Surveys, BART worker unions and EMC research polls all say the same thing: riders dont feel safe. Blaming it on media hype is lazy. Its okay to acknowledge theres a psychosis and drug problem and to start offering solutions that arent just cops
Because in the absence of serious counter proposals such as beefing up ambassadors that 74% of riders have never seen & getting county governments like San Francisco to get more shelters and safe sites open so BART isnt a defacto one, the public is going to just go on cop spree